Patent Application
20100071714
The present invention relates to a wig wherein a part of a wig base is detachable from the wearer's head while the wig is worn and a method of making the same, and especially to a wig wherein a front side of a wig base is detachable from the head and a method of making the same.
A wig is constituted with a wig base made of a net material or artificial skin with hair attached thereto, and, by wearing on the wig wearer's head, the hair amount as a whole is increased, thereby the wig wearer can make desirable hair style even when the wig wearer's own hair becomes thin.
There are a whole head wig and a partial wig among wigs wherein the whole head wig covers the whole head having a periphery along the pre-determined hairline of the wearer's forehead, both side heads, and rear head portions, and wherein the partial wig is worn covering only a necessary portion of a head. Especially as methods to fix the partial wig, a method to clip the wig wearer's own hair with a hairpin attached to the wig and a method to directly bond the wig and the wearer's own hair with an adhesive or a double-stick adhesive tape are known. Although it is relatively easy to wear and take off a wig by these wearing methods, since such methods are too weak in fixing, and the fixing strength may be weakened by vigorous movement or sweating, it does not adapt to long term wearing. Therefore, it is now possible to keep wearing a wig for a certain period of time to be in the state of so-called keep wearing by a method to form a base with head hair by twisting and knitting the hair growing around the wig wearer's head, and to sew it to the wig base by knotting with sewing thread to this base, or a method to knot the wearer's own hair inserting through a slit provided to the periphery of a wig base. Since such fixing methods cause pretty large strength of fixation between a wig and a head, and possibility is low for a wig to move or come off even by vigorous movement, the wig wearer feels no anxiety.
However, since it is difficult for the wearer to wear or take off a wig by these wig wearing methods, the wearer can't help but wash wearer's own hair keeping the wig on the head. Therefore, the scalp and own hair inside the wig wearing region can not be directly washed cleanly, and further since there is no clearance between the own hair and the fixed portion of the wig, there may be some cases in which soil and fat of scalp and hair, or shampoo remain in the fixed portion, making the wig wearer feel nasty, and causing head skin itchy. Also, the wig wearer can not fully wash scalp and own hair inside the wig wearing region, and hence can not feel to have really washed nor feel agreeable.
In such circumstances to be considered, Patent Reference 1 discloses an open and close type wig capable of washing own hair without any restriction to hairstyles. The open and close type wig comprises a looped fixed portion with no artificial hair attached thereon and an open and close portion connected to both ends of the fixed portion, wherein the open and close portion is constituted with a front cover portion adjoining a forehead upon wearing on the head and a lid portion covering an almost whole head.
The wig disclosed in Patent Reference 1 has plural sets of connecting members, wherein one set of the connecting members is provided with the fixed portion, and wherein another set of the connecting members is provided with a peripheral portion of the lid portion corresponding to the fixed portion. Therefore the wig wearer can open the rear head side of the lid portion toward the front by disconnecting the connecting members provided to the peripheral portion of the lid portion and the fixed portion, and can take care of the wearer's own scalp from the rear head side. However, the wig disclosed in Patent Reference 1 has a forehead side of the open and close portion adjoining the wig wearer's scalp. Therefore, the wig wearer can not always keep clean the own forehead, and can not help but rely on a specialist such as hair dressing technicians.
It is an object of the present invention, with reference to the above-mentioned problems, to provide a wig and a method of making the same with which the wig wearer him- or herself, even anyone without relying on a hair dressing technician, can easily detach a part of the wig temporarily from scalp, and wash or take care of scalp and the wearer's own hair growing thereon.
In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a wig with hair attached to a wig base is characterized in that the wig base includes a first base and a second base, wherein the first base has a front portion, a left side portion, a right side portion, a back portion and a top portion, and the first base is formed in a convex shape similar to a wig wearer's head shape so as to cover a wig wearing region, the second base is extended in the direction of the left and right side portions from the back portion on the reverse side of the first base along its outer periphery, and a part of the second base is fixed on the reverse side of a back edge portion of the first base. Especially, it is characterized in that the back portion of the second base is fixed to the reverse side of the back periphery of the first base, and the left and right side periphery of the first base and that the left and right side portions of the second base are detachable by attaching parts.
In the above-described configuration, the peripheries of the left side, the right side and the back portions of the first base are preferably withdrawn slightly from the peripheral edge toward the top portion, for example, inward by about 2 to 4 mm, of the wig wearer's wig wearing region. In other words, if the outer peripheral edge of the second base is formed slightly protruding from the reverse side of the left and right side of the first base, for example a knitted portion is formed by about 2 to 4 mm, the second base can be fixed on the wig wearer's head by hooking the wig wearer's hair to the knitted portion.
The second base is formed in a linear or belt-like shape, and preferably extends from the back edge portion of the first base along the both left and right side edge portions to the vicinity of the front edge, for example, to the turning point. The left and right side portions of the first base are preferably fixed detachably from the left and right side portions of the second base by using an attaching part.
If the linear or belt-like second base has a narrow width, a pedestal is formed protruding inward from the inner edge of each of the left and right side portions the second base, The left and right side edge portions of the first base may be fixed with respective attaching parts detachably to each of pedestals.
A method of making a wig of the present invention comprises: a step of forming a first base provided with a front portion, a left side portion, a right side portion a back portion and a top portion in a convex shape resembling the wig wearer's head shape so as to cover the wig wearing region, a step of forming a peripheral second base extending in the direction of left and right side portions from the back portion on the reverse side of the first base along its outer periphery, and a step of fixing the back edge portion of the first base and the second base with the second base faced the back edge portion, the left side edge portion and right side edge portion on the reverse side of the first base. Preferably, it also includes a step of providing attaching parts such as, for example, hook-and-loop fasteners so that the left and right side periphery of the first base is detachable from the left and right side portion of the second base facing the reverse side of the left and right side periphery.
According to the wig of the present invention, the wig wearer can easily open a part of a wig base from a forehead portion, roll up backward a part of the wig base including a front portion of the wig base, and take care of or wash scalp covered with the wig base and own hair growing on the scalp. Moreover, the wearing state can be returned to the similar state before caring by the wig wearer him- or herself.
According to the method of making a wig of the present invention, the wig can be made which is capable of opening a part of a wig base from a forehead portion, washing or taking other care, and forming a hair style similar to that before caring.
Hereinafter, explanation is made of the best modes for carrying out the present invention, referring to the drawings.
The wig base 11 includes a first base 12 shown in
Explanation is further made concretely of the wig base 11 shown in
A first base 12 is formed in a convex shape bulging to the shape similar as much as possible to the shape and size to cover the wig wearer's wig wearing region, preferably by patterning the wearer's head, to the shape similar as much as possible to the shapes of the wearer's forehead, head top, left side and right side. The first base 12 is hypothetically divided to a portion 12a covering a forehead with front hair attached thereon, a top portion 12e corresponding to the head top and defining a central region of the first base 12, a left side portion 12b adjoining the left end of the top portion 12e, a right side portion 12c adjoining the right end of the top portion 12e, and a back portion 12d adjoining the back end of the top portion 12e and forming a part of a periphery with the front portion 12a, the left side portion 12b and the right side portion 12c, and the outer edge connecting these constitutes the outer shape of the wig. In
Here, with regard to the first base 12 as shown in
The second base 13 extends peripherally along the outer edge of the reverse side of the first base 12 so as to be along the left and right side peripheries 12B and 12C of the first base 12 from the back periphery 12D, and is formed belt-like in a U-shape, especially a horse shoe shape, with the back portion 13a, the left side portion 13b and the right side portion 13c. Here, the left and right side portions 13b and 13c extend, as shown in the figure, to the border between the left and right side peripheries 12B and 12C and the front periphery 12A in the first base 12, that is, from the back periphery 12D to the neighborhood of the front edge of the left and right side peripheries 12B and 12C in the first base 11. If the length of extension of the left and right side portions 13b and 13c is short, then the left and right side edges of the wig base 11 are not partially fixed to the wig wearer's head when the second base 13 is fixed on the wig wearer's head, and the wig may possibly not preferably float up.
The second base 13 is formed belt-like so that its back portion 13a, the left side portion 13b, and the right side portion 13c have a certain width. The width is preferably about equal to that of the reinforcement portion 15 provided to the first base 12, for example, a width of about 1 to 3 cm. In the embodiments shown in
Further, attaching parts 16a and 16b are respectively fixed so that the left and right side peripheries 12B and 12C of the first base 12 are detachable from the left and right side peripheries 13B and 13C of the second base 13. That is, the left and right side peripheries 12B and 12C of the first base 12 and the left and right side peripheries 13B and 13C of the second base 13 are provided, respectively on the facing sides, with a pair of fixed attaching parts 16a and 16b. Here, as the attaching parts, for example, buttons or hook-and-loop fasteners 16a and 16b constituting a pair with concave and convex shapes, and an adhesive tape capable of repeated adhesive many times can be used. In case to use hook-and-loop fasteners 16a and 16b, a convex hook-and-loop fastener 16a may be provided to the first base 12, and a concave hook-and-loop fastener 16b may be provided to the second base 13, or vice versa. The hook-and-loop fasteners 16a and 16b are respectively fixed to parts or whole of the left and right side peripheries 12B and 12C and the left and right side portions 13b and 13c on the region where the first base 12 and the second base 13 can face. The hook-and-loop fastener 16b may be fixed, as is illustrated, only to about the central portion of the left and right side peripheries 12B and 12C, with its front edge apart by the pre-determined distance from each front edge of the left and right side peripheries 12B and 12C. The front and the back edges may also be close to the front and the back edges of the left and right side peripheries 12B and 12C. The hook-and-loop fastener 16a is fixed on the reverse side of the first base 12 so that it can face the hook-and-loop fastener 16b fixed on the surface side of the second base 13. It is likewise in case that the attaching part is adhesive tape.
The second base 13 shown in
Here, the peripheries of the left side portion 12b, the right side portion 12c and the back portion 12d of the first base 12 are positioned inside by the pre-determined length, preferably about 2 mm to 4 mm, from the periphery of the wig wearing region of the whole wig 10, and the second base 13 preferably protrudes partly from inside. This is because the wig wearer's own hair grows on the periphery of the wig wearing region, and for knitting the own hair and fixing the wig 10 with the knitting portion 17 of the second base 13.
Explanation is made of a method of making the wig 10 shown in
First, a first base 12 is made.
Thus, on the male pattern 2 on which the peripheral line 3 for making the first base is drawn, two net members 4 are overlapped as the material of the first base 12, and, as in the side view of
Then, after cooling the male pattern 2, the upper net member 4b of the two net members 4 is detached from the male pattern 2, a belt-shaped net member 5 is half bent along the length direction as the material of an exposure-preventive net member 16 on the lower net member 4a fixed to the male pattern 2, as in the plan view of
Thereafter, the upper net member 4b is fixed to the male pattern 2 while positioning so that the upper net member 4b overlaps on the lower net member 4a. In that state, after the upper and the lower net members 4b and 4a are tacked with a dress pin, the temporarily tacked net member 4 is detached from the male pattern 2. And then, the outer periphery and its vicinity of the upper and the lower net members 4b and 4a are sewn with sewing thread 6a all along the periphery, and the upper and the lower net members 4b and 4a are unified by sewing with sewing thread 6b the portion inside by the pre-determined distance, for example, 2 cm from the outer periphery all along the outer peripheral line. Out of the lower net member 4a, the inner region portion of sewing thread 6b shown in the plan view of
By passing the above-mentioned steps, the first base 12 is provided with a reinforcement portion 15 comprising a double overlap of the upper net member 4a and the lower net member 4b inside by the pre-determined distance from the outer periphery, the other regions including a top portion comprise only of the upper net member 4b, and the outer periphery of the reinforcement portion 15 is provided with an exposure-preventive net 16. Here, though the first base 12 is made using two net members of the same fiber diameters and mesh numbers in the explanation above, the first base may be made using net members of the different fiber diameters and/or mesh numbers.
A second base 13 is made next.
Thus, on the male pattern 2 on which the peripheral line 7 for making the second base or the outer peripheral line 7a is drawn, two net members 8 are overlapped as the material of the second base 13, and, as in the side view of
The male pattern 2 is cooled, the upper net member 8a and the lower net member 8b are tacked with dress pins, and the mutually tacked net members 8 are detached from the male pattern 2. Then, first, the upper net member 8a and the lower net member 8b are unified by sewing with sewing thread 8d the outer peripheral portion 8c of the upper net member 8a and the lower net member 8b, and thereafter the upper net member 8a and the lower net member 8b are cut out approximately along the outer peripheral portion 8c so as to form the inner peripheral portion Se of the second base 13. Illustrating the cut out state of the upper net member 8a and the lower net member 8b is a plan view of
Next, as shown in a plan view of
By passing the above-mentioned steps, the second base 13 provided with a hemming portion made of the lace tape 9 on the outer periphery of the U-shaped net member 8 can be made.
Here, as the material for the second base 13, a net member 8 different in a thread diameter and a mesh number from the net member 4 used as the material for the first base 12 is used. The net member as the material for the second base 13 preferably has the larger thread diameter and mesh number than the net member 4 as the material for the first base. This is because the second base 13 better has stiffness and the shape is stabilized, since it is knitted directly in the head own hair, and functions as the basis to fix the first base 12.
To the left and right side edge portion 12B and 12C of the first base 12, the left side portion 13b, and the right side portion 13c of the second base 13, hook-and-loop fasteners 16a and 16b are fixed to face each other as a left and right pair of clippers. Here, a convex type hook-and-loop fastener 16a is fixed to the first base 12, and a concave type hook-and-loop fastener 16b is fixed to the second base 13. For fixing hook-and-loop fasteners 16a and 16b, an adhesive may be used for bonding, but fixing by sewing may as well do using thread material.
Thereafter, the back portion 13a of the second base 13 is provided to the reverse side of the back edge portion 12D of the first base 12, and the pre-determined regions of the back edge portion 12D and the back portion 13a are fixed by either sewing or bonding.
A wig 10 is completed by attaching hair 14 of the pre-determined number of strands at each pre-determined zone in the first base 12 of the thus made wig base 11. If the outer edge of the second base 13 protrudes out of the outer edge of the first base 12, then the exposure of the second base 13 can be prevented by attaching hair 14 also in the protruding region, that is, the surface side of the knitting portion 17. Here, the explanation above is for the case where both the first base 11 and the second base 12 are made of a net member, but each base may be artificial skin, or their combination.
Explanation is next made of a method of using the thus made wig 10.
First, among the wig wearer's own hairs 1, the user's own hairs 1 near the region where the wig base 11 is worn are bound at the pre-determined interval to make the wearer's own hair bundles. Using the wearer's own hair bundles, the second base 13 of the wig 10 is fixed to the wig wearer's head. The methods of fixing are as following. As a first method, a plurality of the wearer's own hair strands are properly bundled, and knotted to a knitting portion 17 of the second base 13. As a second method, the neighboring bundles of the wearer's own hair bundles formed at intervals are first mutually knotted with a thread member, and anchors are formed in, for example, U-shape at the pre-determined interval along the outer periphery of the wig wearing region of the wig wearer's head. The second base 13 is fixed to the wig wearer's own hair 1 by knotting the anchor and the knitting portion 17 of the second base 13. As a third method, a plurality of insertion holes, though not shown, are formed in the second base 13 along a left side portion 13b, a back portion 13a, and a right side portion 13c, each wearer's own hair bundle is inserted into each insertion hole, and the inserted wearer's own hair bundles are knotted. Thus, using wearer's own hair bundles, the second base 13 is fixed to the wig wearer's head. Any of the above-mentioned methods may be used to fix a wig on the user's scalp, but it should be noted that the wearer's own hair is not knotted to the first base 11.
Thereafter, by applying an adhesive such as a medical adhesive over whole or at spots or by adhering a double-stick tape on the reverse side of a front edge portion 12A of the first base 12, and by pressing the front edge portion 12A and the left and right side edge portions 12B and 12C of the first base 12 from the surface side where hair is attached, the front edge portion 12A is bonded to scalp with the adhesive applied to the front edge portion 12A of the first base 12, or with the adhered double-stick tape, as well as a pair of attaching parts 16a and 16b are mutually hooked. After the wig 10 is thus worn on a head, the hair (self hair) 1 growing on the wig wearer's head and the hair 14 attached to the wig base 11 are mixed by lightly brushing with a combing brush or others to form a desired hair style.
It is described below that, upon thus wearing a wig 10 on the wig wearer's head, the wig wearer's scalp can be maintained clean and sanitary without taking off the whole wig 10.
The wig wearer unlocks the hooking of a pair of attaching parts 16a and 16b provided to the left and right of the first and the second bases 12 and 13, respectively, of the wig base 11 at home or else. In this case, for example, if an adhesive has been applied to the front edge portion 12A of the first base 12, the adhesive is dissolved with the pre-determined solvent to separate the front edge portion 12A of the first base 12 from the scalp. In case to use a hook-and-loop fastener as the attaching parts 16a and 16b, by pinching with a finger and rolling up the shaved portions 12f and 12g of the first base 12 while inserting a pin for detaching between the first base 12 and the scalp, hooking of the attaching parts 16a and 16b of the first and the second bases 12 and 13 can be easily detached. Therefore, hooking of the attaching parts can be easily unlocked without facing a mirror by the wig wearer.
Thus, by unlocking the hooking of the attaching parts 16a provided to the left and right side edge portions 12B and 12C of the first base 12 and the attaching parts 16b provided to the left and right side portions 13b and 13c of the second base 13, it is possible to roll up the first base 12 covering the wig wearer's head and to take care of the scalp covered with the first base 12 and the wearer's own hair. In this case, since the first base 12 is rolled up backward of the wig wearer, the hair 14 attached to the first base 12 and the wearer's own hair 1 of the head can be washed together without particular segregation. There is no wig member interfering the care from the head top to the forehead side of the wig wearer. Therefore, the wig wearer can take care elaborately by him- or herself the scalp of the front or the top of the head.
Following such care, the wig wearer faces a mirror, applies an adhesive to the reverse side of the front edge portion 12A of the first base 12 or the pre-determined front portion of scalp, overlaps next the left and the right side edge portions 12B and 12C of the first base 12, respectively, to the left and the right side portions 13b and 13c of the second base 13 fixed on the head, and makes a attaching parts 16a fixed to the first base 12 and a attaching parts 16b fixed to the second base 13 face one another. Next, by pressing the front edge portion 12A and the left and the right side edge portions 12B and 12C of the first base 12 from the surface side, the front edge portion 12A of the first base 12 is bonded to the scalp with the adhesive, as well as a pair of attaching parts 16a and 16b are hooked to one another, and the hair 1 of the wig wearer's head and the hair 14 attached to the wig base 11 are mixed by lightly brushing with a combing brush or others to form a desired hair style.
Thus, when the wig 10 shown in
Modified examples are explained next.
A first modified example differs in that, in the wig base shown in
A second modified example differs in that, in the wig base shown in
A third modified example differs in that, the second base is not belt-shaped as shown in
In order to fix the wig 20 with regard to this third modified example to a head, the wearer's own hair of the head is first knitted to the second base 23 properly using a thread member, and the second base 23 is fixed to the head, and, as in the case of the second modified example, an adhesive is applied to the front edge portion 12A of the first base 12 or the pre-determined region of scalp, the first base 12 is covered on scalp, the comb teeth of the left and the right stoppers are inserted into the wig wearer's hair, and the left and the right side edge portions 12B and 12C of the first base 12 are fixed to the head via the left and the right side portions 23b and 23c of the second base 23.
A fourth modified example is the modification without using a stopper or else in the third modified example but a hook-and-loop fastener or a double-stick adhesive tape can be used.
When the wig 30 in accordance with the fourth modified example is to be fixed on the wig wearer's head, the wearer's own hair on the head is first knitted into the second base 33 properly using a thread member, and the second base 33 is fixed on the head. By applying an adhesive over whole or at spots on the reverse side of a front edge portion 12A of the first base 12, covering scalp with the first base 12, and by pressing the front edge portion 12A and the left and right side edge portions 12B and 12C of the first base 12 from the surface side, the front edge portion 12A of the first base 12 is bonded to head skin with the adhesive, as well as a pair of clipping parts are mutually hooked. Thus, the wig 30 can be worn on the head.
In the above-mentioned modified examples, only the back edge portion of the first base and the back portion of the second base are fixed, and since the left and the right side edge portions of the first base and the left and right side portions of the second base are pinched with attaching parts, or the left and right side edge portions of the first base are stuck with attaching parts to scalp over the left and right side edge portions of the second base, clipping with attaching parts can be unlocked.
Therefore, the type to fix a rear head side and to open and close a forehead side like the present invention, different from the type to fix a forehead side and to open and close a rear head side like Patent Reference 1, has the following merits for use.
First of all, in the type to open and close a rear head side, since it is necessary to unlock the attaching parts where a fixing part and an opening and closing part comprising a so-called wig base are provided from a side head to a rear head portions, and it is not possible to specifically see the attaching parts itself provided on the rear head side and the rear head portion, it takes time and labor to hook the attaching parts upon re-wearing and to firmly fix the opening and closing part at the pre-determined position of the fixing part. By contrast, in the type to open and close a forehead side, since there is no attaching parts provided at a rear head side, such time and labor are not required.
Secondly, in the type to open and close a rear head side, since the front side of the wig base stays fixed to the head, it mismatches with the fact that a hairline retreats from a front to a top. That is, since the front side tends to be dehaired or thin haired, necessity is high for a wig wearer to take care of scalp, but it can not be freely done. By contrast, in the type to open and close a forehead side, the scalp of the front side can be always taken care of.
Thirdly, in the type to open and close a rear head side, since the hair attached to the wig and scalp, especially the wearer's own hair on the rear head side, separate by wearing and detaching the wig, it is necessary to entangle and fit in the hair attached to the wig and the wearer's own hair so that wearing of the wig is not visible, and it takes time and labor to rearrange hair style. By contrast, in the type to open and close a forehead side, it is possible to take care of the wearer's own hair of the rear and the side head portions and the wearer's own hair attached to the wig together, and it does not take time and labor to rearrange hair style.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-314662 | Nov 2006 | JP | national |
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind | 371c Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/JP2007/072323 | 11/16/2007 | WO | 00 | 5/4/2009 |
